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Cornell Wall Street (CWS) Presents: Andrew Ross Sorkin '99

On November 30, 2009, Sorkin, an acclaimed New York Times reporter and senior editor of NYTimes.com's DealBook, will present his newly launched book to his fellow Cornellians.
 
CWS is thrilled to present: 
 
Too Big To Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System--and Themselves
 
The book is a real-life thriller about the most tumultuous period in America's financial history.

Additionally, we are excited that we will be joined by renowned Communications Professor Brian O'Hara Earle '67, MPS '71.

Monday, November 30, 2009 
6:15 p.m. Doors open/Networking reception
7:20 p.m. Professor Brian Earle '67, MPS '71
7:30 p.m. Presentation/Q&A
8:30 p.m. Networking continues
9:00 p.m. Event concludes
 
Cost: $65* includes a copy of Too Big To Fail, reception, networking, and presentation
 
*In keeping with Cornell's spirit of accessibility for all, we've reserved a limited number of spots for students and unemployed alumni who are having financial difficulties. Please contact john.zelenka@cornell.edu for more information.
 
Location: The Cornell Club of New York: ~ 6 East 44th Street ~ 212-986-0300 
 
Public Transportation: The Cornell Club of New York is 2 blocks from Grand Central Station. Grand Central is easily accessible via Metro North Railroad, and subway lines 4, 5, 6, 7, and S. Once you arrive at Grand Central, exit on the Vanderbilt Avenue side and walk up E. 44th for 2 blocks. The club will be on your left.
 
Parking: Central parking is at 100 W 44th Street, 6th and Broadway, for $22.00 with Cornell Club validation. Valet parking is available for $40 for up to 24 hours.

More Information about Too Big To Fail

Excerpt
"We just hit the iceberg," Jaime Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, warned his men over dinner just 24 hours before Lehman Brothers would file for bankruptcy, Merrill Lynch would sell itself to Bank of America, and the insurance giant AIG would teeter-all within one afternoon. "The boat is filling and the music is still playing. There's not enough lifeboats. Someone is going to die," he said with a wry smile. "So you might as well enjoy the champagne and caviar." 

About the Author
Andrew Ross Sorkin is the award-winning chief mergers and acquisitions reporter, a columnist and assistant editor of business and finance news at The New York Times. He is also the editor and founder of DealBook, an online daily financial report. Sorkin has appeared on Today, Good Morning America, The Charlie Rose Show, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, and Talk of the Nation and is a frequent guest host of Squawk Box. Sorkin has won a Gerald Loeb Award, the highest honor in business journalism, and a Society of American Business Editors and Writers Award. In 2007, the World Economic Forum named him a Young Global Leader. In 2008, Vanity Fair named Sorkin to its "Next Establishment" list. Sorkin is a 1999 communications graduate from Cornell University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

Press for Too Big To Fail

• Forbes.com
• Charlie Rose in conversation with Andrew Ross Sorkin
• New York Magazine
• Vanity Fair
• New York Times
• Wall Street Tycoons Flock To Andrew Ross Sorkin's Book Party

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Cornell Wall Street (CWS) and Cornell On the Road (COR) present "An Important Lesson in Finance; Bailing Out the Roman Empire" featuring Kim Bowes, author, archaeologist, Cornell University Assistant Professor, and recipient of the Milstein Faculty Fellowship



Think the economy is bad now? Kim Bowes, assistant professor of Classics, recommends, "Try living through the third century A.D.!" Runaway inflation, political turmoil, constant war - the end of the world really seemed at hand. 

Come join us for an intimate gathering to hear how two Roman emperors instituted the world's greatest bailout package and saved the Roman empire - and how archaeology is now revealing the brilliance, and cost, of their plan.

About Our Speaker
Kim Bowes has published on subjects ranging from Christian archaeology and domestic architecture to settlement dynamics and the late Roman economy; her most recent book, published in 2008, is "Private Worship, Public Values, and Religious Change in Late Antiquity."  Kim is also a practicing field archaeologist, and has excavated sites ranging from Israel to Portugal; most recently she has been working on the excavation of a Roman estate village in central Sicily (Sofiana Project).   She received her PhD from Princeton University and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Yale University, and has also taught at Fordham University.

Thursday, October 8th, 2009 6:30PM - 9PM

6:30PM Registration/Light Reception
7:30PM Presentation/Q&A
8:30PM Open Mike/Networking
9:00PM Event concludes

Location: Weill Greenberg Center, 1305 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065, http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&tab=wl  

Cost: $30 per person, Space is very limited so register early! 

Cornell Wall Street (CWS) presents: Leading Through Turbulent Times featuring Jessica Bibliowicz '81, Chairman, President and CEO of National Financial Partners

"Winning Free Press & Viral Buzz in Tough Times: The Power of Sticky Stories & Superb Storytellers to Build Your Brand" featuring Former CNN Business News Anchor & NBC News Correspondent Farland Chang '84, MS '85

From grade school to college, and business to politics, we're challenged to get our point across and make our ideas stick. We have a message to deliver and an audience to reach.

But what is the most credible, compelling and colorful approach? Having a great story to tell! And ideally one that others will tell and retell. If a picture says 1000 words, a story says 1000 pictures.

As the Heath brothers write in "Made to Stick," sticky stories explain why some ideas succeed and others die. Think of Bible stories and Aesop's Fables.

Sticky stories appeal to media - both news & social media. And that's a win-win recipe - feeding the media's hunger for "news their audience can use" and feeding your hunger for good press.

Positive publicity helps brand names win hearts and minds. That's because independent reviews offer credible, third party endorsements. And that's why many leaders in commerce and government view the media as one of their most important "customers."

Favorable reviews from trusted sources build reputations - while follow up advertising reinforces those reputations. As marketing guru Al Ries notes, Publicity first, Advertising second.

From east to west, many top brand names in their early days got off the ground thanks to the power of publicity and word-of-mouth – with virtually no advertising at all.

Consider Google, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, YouTube, Craigslist, Subway, Apple, Starbucks, eBay, Pokémon, Harry Potter, Viagra, Blackberry, The Body Shop, Palm, Red Bull, Amazon, Yahoo, even Wal-Mart and Microsoft early on. And from China, look at the success of homegrown brands such as Alibaba, Baidu, Li-Ning, Sohu, Sina, Taobao, Tudou, Youku, Xiaonei and Taobao.

Publicity from news reports - good and bad - can be amplified through Facebook and other social networking sites - with their power to virally distribute news stories. So how can we craft our own memorable headlines by thinking like journalists?

Beyond knowing WHAT to say, we need to know HOW to say it. How much are we being judged by verbal versus nonverbal? What can Great Communicators teach us - from Obama to Oprah, and Steve Jobs to Ronald Reagan? And what's the secret to performing as ourselves- at our best?

Join Emmy Award winning journalist and Cornell alum Farland Chang ’84, MS ‘85 for this entertaining & interactive presentation featuring video case studies and filled with take-home value.

Highlights of this event will include:

• Harnessing the power of news & social media

• Promoting your cause, your brand and yourself

• The art of storytelling

• Crafting your ideal headline

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

6:30 PM Reception and Networking

7:30 PM Presentation/Q&A

9:00 PM Open Mic and Networking Continues 9:30 PM Event Concludes

Cost: $45 Includes Reception, Networking, Presentation

Location: The Cornell Club–New York, 6 East 44th Street, New York, NY ~ between Fifth and Madison Avenues

Public Transportation: The Cornell Club New York is located two blocks from Grand Central Station. Grand Central is easily accessible via Metro North Railroad, and subway lines 4, 5, 6, 7 and S. Once you arrive at Grand Central, exit on the Vanderbilt Avenue side and walk up E. 44th a total of 2 blocks. Club will be on your left, between Madison and Fifth Avenues.

Parking Information: Central Parking located at 100 W 44th Street, 6th and Broadway for a charge of $22.00 with Cornell Club Validation or Valet Parking for a fee of $40 for 24hrs.

Event Contact: Amanda Christofferson, CEN Coordinator amanda.christofferson@cornell.edu, 607-254-7111

Cornell Entrepreneur Network (CEN) presents: Womens' Luncheon, Tips and Tricks of Finding the Work you Love…Flexibly! featuring Lisa Kay Solomon '93, board member of Flexperience Today.

Today, women are increasingly interested in blending parenthood with a career. However, the careers they seek today are not the traditional full-time, office-bound roles.  In fact, the Pew Research Center survey recently released found that only 21 percent of working mothers with children under 18 viewed full-time work as the best arrangement, down from 32 percent in 1997.  Sixty percent of the working mothers said a part-time job would be best, up from 48 percent ten years ago. So how do you get that flexible, fulfilling job?

This event has been sold out. To be placed on the waitlist please contact Amanda Christofferson, amanda.christofferson@cornell.edu, 607.254.7111

Cornell Entrepreneur Network (CEN) NYC in partnership with Cornell On The Road presents "The GI Bill, Government Stimulus, and the Future of America" featuring Prof. Glenn Altschuler MA '73, PhD '76 and Professor Emeritus Stuart Blumin

   

On June 18, come hear two of Cornell's most notable historians, Glenn Altschuler and Stuart Blumin, describe how the G.I Bill, the “mother of all stimulus plans,” transformed American society after World War II by helping over 15 million veterans go to college, get job training, buy houses, start businesses, and improve their overall quality of life.  Professors Altschuler and Blumin will explain why the bill gained such broadbased (and unprecedented) bipartisan support in 1944, and will discuss similarities with – and differences from – the Obama stimulus package of 2009.

Also at the event you will receive a signed copy of Prof. Altschuler and Blumin's new book, The G.I. Bill: A New Deal for Veterans (Oxford University Press, 2009) as part of your registration fee.

About Our Speakers

Glenn Altschuler MA’73, PhD ’76, is the Thomas and Dorothy Litwin Professor of American Studies, a Weiss Presidential Fellow, and the Dean of the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions at Cornell University.

He is the author or co-author of nine books (including All Shook Up: How Rock 'n' Roll Changed America), and more than two-hundred essays and reviews. In addition to his scholarly essays, he has written for The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Baltimore Sun, The Los Angeles Times, The Jerusalem Post, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Boston Globe, The New York Observer, Barron’s Financial Weekly, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and American Heritage Magazine.  He currently blogs at The Huffington Post, along with Kevin Morris ’91, on American culture and media: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kevin-morris-and-glenn-altschuler

Stuart M. Blumin was a Professor of History at Cornell University for thirty-four years, and for nine years was Director of the Cornell in Washington program. He is the author of a number of books, including The Emergence of the Middle Class: Social Experience in the American City.

June 18th, 2009 ~ 6:30 - 9:30pm

6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Registration and Networking Reception

7:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Discussion/Q&A/Open Mike

8:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. Continued Networking

Cost: $45 Includes Heavy Hors D'Oeuvres, Networking, Speaker Presentation, and a signed copy of The GI Bill: The New Deal for Veterans

Location: The Cornell Club of New York, 6 East 44th Street ~ 212.986.0300

Directions: Click Here http://www.cornellclubnyc.com/about_directions.html

Public Transportation: The Cornell Club New York is located 2 blocks from Grand Central Station. Grand Central is easily accessible via Metro North Railroad, and subway lines 4, 5, 6, 7 and S. Once you arrive at Grand Central, exit on the Vanderbilt Avenue side and walk up E. 44th a total of 2 blocks. Club will be on your left.

Parking Information: Central Parking located at 100 W 44th Street, 6th and Broadway for a charge of $22.00 with Cornell Club Validation or Valet Parking for a fee of $40 for 24hrs.

Event Contact: Amanda Christofferson, amanda.christofferson@cornell.edu, 607.254.7111 

This event has been sold out. To be placed on the waitlist please contact Amanda Christofferson, amanda.christofferson@cornell.edu, 607.254.7111

CEN NYC, in collaboration with Entrepreneurship@Cornell and Entrepreneurship@Johnson, presents: “Start-Up Cornell” Pitch Forum

• Eric Young ’78, General Partner, Canaan Partners will present “What VCs are looking for in a company presentation?” 
  
• John Jaquette, Executive Director Entrepreneurship@Cornell will provide a program update
  
• 5 fledgling start-ups being launched by Cornell students will present to a panel of VC judges who will give practical guidance and of course will ask the audience what they think…. 
  

Cornell Entrepreneur Network (CEN) NY is pleased to present “The Proactive Leader: Skills for Sustaining Momentum in Uncertain Times” featuring ILR faculty member Samuel B. Bacharach, Ph.D.

In the face of today’s environment, organizations face unprecedented challenges that require a specific skills of execution that most leadership programs just gloss over. In an effort to move leadership beyond the realm of charisma and vision, and ground it in the skills of execution, Professor Bacharach has defined leadership as the capacity to mobilize others and sustain momentum. His Proactive Leadership model recognizes that all organizations are political entities, where formal power and authority are often eclipsed by the ability of individuals to work across traditional boundaries to get things done.  Influence, expertise, and an understanding of others’ interests are used to build and sustain an organization’s momentum.  The model prepares entrepreneurial leaders who are facing tough and risky decisions with the capacity to align organizations with their decision.  In this session, Professor Bacharach will discuss how the skills of getting, and keeping, people on your side can be applied in all organizational setting to get things done. 

About Our Speaker:

Samuel Bacharach is the McKelvey-Grant Professor of Labor Management and is Director of ILR’s New York City based Institute for Workplace Studies as well as the Director of the Smithers Institute. He is also the director of the New York City-based Master of Professional Studies. He received his BS in economics from NYU. His MS and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin.

Friday, March 20, 2009

7:30 – 9:00 a.m.

7:30 – 8:00 - Early arrival networking; doors open at 7:15

8:00 – 8:50 – Presentation, discussion and Q&A

9:00 – Hard Stop, stay to network as your schedule allows

Cost: $30 Includes Breakfast, Networking, and Speaker Presentation

Location: The Cornell Club of New York, 6 East 44th Street ~ 212.986.0300

Directions: Click Here http://www.cornellclubnyc.com/about_directions.html

Public Transportation: The Cornell Club New York is located 2 blocks from Grand Central Station. Grand Central is easily accessible via Metro North Railroad, and subway lines 4, 5, 6, 7 and S. Once you arrive at Grand Central, exit on the Vanderbilt Avenue side and walk up E. 44th a total of 2 blocks. Club will be on your left.

Parking Information: Central Parking located at 100 W 44th Street, 6th and Broadway for a charge of $22.00 with Cornell Club Validation or Valet Parking for a fee of $40 for 24hrs.

CEN NYC: “From Goldman to Hedge Funds” featuring Girish Reddy, co-founder and managing partner of Prisma Capital Partners LP

While the finance industry has seen some tumultuous ups and downs in the last few months, one thing about it hasn’t changed:  creative, entrepreneurial types WILL survive. Our speaker on January 15th has done just that. He is an alumnus who was a successful entrepreneur within several large companies. He used each of his experiences to build on the next. He spent six years in the investment management division of Travelers Insurance, an early pioneer in introducing a quantitative approach to investing, before becoming part of a California partnership that provided hedging strategies to pension funds and endowments. In 1990, he joined Goldman Sachs in London when derivatives as a business was just starting to grow outside the United States.  He has gone from working in big firms to becoming a co-founder of his own entrepreneurial venture.

At our CEN breakfast on January 15, Mr. Reddy will share his experience in starting and growing a finance-related business. Specifically, he’ll talk about how he:

• Found the right partners 
• Structured the firm for future growth  
• Maintained focus during the early phase growth and beyond
• Plans for future growth in these uncertain times

About Our Speaker

Girish Reddy is co-founder and managing partner of Prisma Capital Partners LP, a multi-billion dollar Fund of Hedge Funds providing customized portfolios to institutional investors like insurance companies, pension funds and foundations.

Mr. Reddy is a former partner of Goldman, Sachs & Co., where he was a co-head of equity derivatives. Prior to Goldman, he was the CIO of LOR Associates, a hedging and strategy advising firm based in Los Angeles, developing strategic alliances with other established asset managers like Wells Fargo and Aetna Insurance. Earlier in his career, he was a senior vice president of portfolio construction and asset allocation, at Travelers
Investment Management Company, where he specialized in various overlay strategies for the firm using listed futures and options.

Mr. Reddy is a member of the Cornell University Council, is an elected member of and serves on the executive board of the Indian School of Business. He is also a former board member of Barra Inc. Mr. Reddy received his Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT) in 1977 and Masters in Engineering and MBA from Cornell University in 1980.

In February 2008, I.I.T. Madras awarded Mr. Reddy the Distinguished Alumnus Award of the Institute.

Thursday, January 15, 2009
7:30 – 9:00 a.m.

7:30 – 8:00 - Early arrival networking; doors open at 7:15
8:00 – 8:50 – Presentation, discussion and Q&A
9:00 – Hard Stop, stay to network as your schedule allows

Cost: $25 Includes Breakfast, Networking, and Speaker Presentation
Location: The Cornell Club of New York, 6 East 44th Street ~ 212.986.0300
Directions: Click Here http://www.cornellclubnyc.com/about_directions.html
Parking Information: Central Parking located at 100 W 44th Street, 6th and Broadway for a charge of $22.00 with Cornell Club Validation or Valet Parking for a fee of $40 for 24hrs.

Event Contact: Amanda Christofferson ~ 607.254.7111 ~ amc392@cornell.edu

The Green Design: Solar Decathlon to Business Creation video is now live on CornellCast, to view click here! 

CEN NYC and the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning present: Green Design: From Solar Decathlon to Business Creation featuring Cornell’s 2009 Solar Decathlon Team and ZeroEnergy Design

Have you ever heard of cross-collaboration at Cornell and wondered where it happens?

Have you ever read about Cornell-based, real world projects fostering new businesses, and wanted to see some for real?

If so, you should join us as we feature the student leaders of the 2009 Cornell Solar Decathlon Team (from Engineering, AA&P, CALS, and Johnson) and Stephanie Horowitz (AA&P ’05) of ZeroEnergy Design, a business formed by the leaders of the 2005 Cornell Solar Decathlon Team. You’ll see firsthand how these students and recent grads are changing the way we live and how we think about green buildings and green businesses.

The Cornell University Solar Decathlon (CUSD) is an interdisciplinary, student-run project that competes in the U.S. Department of Energy’s global “Solar Decathlon” to design & build a house that combines solar energy, energy efficiency, and the best in home design. The house must be powered exclusively by the sun. 2009 marks CUSD's third successive entry into the competition.

Cornell is one of only twenty universities around the world (and the only one in NY) selected to participate in the 2009 Solar Decathlon Competition. Through this competition, the student-led team will design, finance, build, transport, and showcase their 100% solar-powered house on the National Mall (Washington, D.C.) in October 2009.  The Cornell University Solar Decathlon (CUSD) team consists of nearly 200 undergraduate and graduate students representing a wide variety of colleges and departments at Cornell.  This team will present their design, key systems, and sustainability features of their 2009 entry. Also on hand will be team advisors, Architecture Professor Jerry Wells and Engineering Labs Director, Matt Ulinski as well as new AA&P Dean, Kent Kleinman. 

In addition, Stephanie Horowitz will discuss her transition from 2005 CUSD Team Leader to Co-founder and Managing Director of ZeroEnergy Design (ZED), a leading residential design and engineering firm.  From its inception, ZED has completed over 60 projects including the design and oversight of numerous types of alternative energy homes, consulting projects with corporations such as General Electric, and international efforts in Dominica and Nigeria. In 2008, ZED spun out another start-up business, FreeGreen.com, a company that works with alternative energy building products vendors on an advertising basis and has become the largest provider of house plans in the US downloaded from the internet.

Come and support our students as Cornellians make their mark towards a sustainable future. 

Monday January 12th ~ 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM

6:30 PM Hors d'oeuvre Reception/Cash Bar/Networking
7:30 PM Speaker/Q&A/Open Mike

Cost: ADVANCED REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. This event will sell out. $30 includes hors d’oeuvres, networking, and presentations. 

Location: College of Architecture, Art, and Planning NYC Studio, 50 W 17th Street, 2nd Floor, between 5th and 6th Avenues.

Event Contact: Amanda Christofferson, CEN Coordinator, amc392@cornell.edu, 607.254.7111

CEN NYC: “Good cheese, Good business” featuring Rob Kaufelt ‘69, owner of Murray’s Cheese Shop and Author of The Murray’s Cheese Handbook

 Let’s try to forget about the current economic crisis for one night and focus instead on the business of comfort food, specifically the business of cheese.

Our speaker on December 10 is Rob Kaufelt ’69. Rob owns Murray’s Cheese, which was named Best Cheese Shop in the World by Forbes.com and msnbc.com, and Best Cheese Shop in New York by Time Out New York. Murray’s Zagat Marketplace rating is 29, making it the highest ranked of all gourmet stores in New York.

At this event, you'll hear Rob talk about:
Turning your passion into a profitable enterprise, and maintaining that passion as your business grows
Small business doing business with big business: Murrays recently signed a deal with Kroger to manage their in-store cheese counters
Whatever you want – as always you’ll have 15 minutes to pose whatever questions you’d like answers to

About our Speaker
Rob Kaufelt's career in food retail began in 1969 after his graduation from Cornell University. Rob's family owned the New Jersey supermarket chain, Mayfair Supermarkets, operating under the Foodtown banner. After holding positions of Store Manager, District Manager, Director of Operations and Dairy Buyer, Rob was made President of the company. Rob eventually left Mayfair to focus on full-service specialty foods retail, and opened Kaufelt's Fancy Groceries in Princeton, New Jersey, where he ran the business for five years.
 
In 1990 Rob moved to Greenwich Village and, standing in line at his local cheese store, overheard owner Louis Tudda say that he'd lost his lease and was closing Murray's Cheese. Rob made an offer, bought the shop and moved it across Cornelia Street where it stayed until November 2004. Under Rob's ownership, Murray's grew from a local commodity cheese shop to a world renowned destination, offering the rarest and finest cheeses, many of which Rob sourced directly from farms across Europe and the United States. He began an import program in 1999 to better control quality, and was the first retailer to buy and promote American artisan cheeses. From this small space, Rob began a wholesale business, selling to three and four star restaurants, a mail order business, and, in 2002 added a second retail outlet in midtown Manhattan. When the company moved to its current location in 2004, Rob added a classroom, aging caves and prepared foods department to the line-up. To share his knowledge, Rob published The Murray's Cheese Handbook (Random House, 2006), and most days can be found at the Bleecker Street store making customers the same offer his grandfather did in the 1920s: "Here, take a taste."
 
Rob has made appearances on the Martha Stewart Show (NBC), NYC-TV: Eat Out NY, The Today Show (NBC), LXTV First Look NY (NBC), Wine Spectator.com Video, WOR Radio, The City Cook Podcast, DeGustibus at Macy’s, and the World Championship Cheese Contest. Murray’s Cheese has also been featured in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Financial Times, Forbes, Daily Mail (UK), New York Post, Daily News, The Village Voice, The New Yorker, O: Oprah Magazine, Time Out New York, New York Magazine, Martha Stewart Living, AM New York, The New York Observer, Conde Nast Traveler, WWD Scoop, and Gourmet News.

About Murray's Cheese
Founded in 1940 by Murray Greenberg, Murray's Cheese has long been a fixture of New York's Greenwich Village. Along with neighboring food destinations Faicco's, Ottomanelli's and Rocco's, Murray's is part of the rich food history of this formerly Italian enclave. Initially a wholesaler of butter and eggs, Murray's has evolved into New York's (and the United States') best loved cheese shop. In November 2008, Murray's ventured into in the cured meat market with the opening of Murray's Real Salami.

Wednesday, December 10, 2008 ~ 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM

6:30 PM Hors d'oeuvre Reception/Cash Bar/Networking
7:30 PM Speaker/Q&A/Open Mike
8:30 PM Coffee/Networking

Cost: $35 Includes Heavy Hors d’ Oeuvres, Networking, Speaker Presentation, Coffee or Tea
Location: The Cornell Club of New York ~ 6 East 44th Street ~ 212.986.0300
Parking Information: Central Parking located at 100 W 44th Street, 6th and Broadway for a charge of $22.00 with Cornell Club Validation or Valet Parking for a fee of $40 for 24hrs.

Event Contact: Amanda Christofferson ~ 607.254.7111 ~ amc392@cornell.edu

A Really Inconvenient Truth:
Why Climate Change is Much Worse Than You’ve Been Told and What We Must Do Now

Dan Miller, BSEE ’78,  is Managing Director of The Roda Group, a seed stage venture capital group now focusing on Clean Tech.  Dan co-founded The Roda Group with Roger Strauch, his friend and business partner he met at Cornell.  Dan is also Chairman of the Foundation Board of Chabot Space & Science Center based in Oakland.  At Chabot, Dan is working with Cornellian Bill Nye the Science Guy to develop a climate change exhibit geared towards kids and their parents.  Dan is also a member of Al Gore’s Climate Project and was trained by Mr. Gore to give the An Inconvenient Truth slide show, though Dan’s talk is not based on Mr. Gore’s.

Dan’s presentation will focus on why the UN IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) reports are actually best case scenarios.  Dan will present a more realistic (and scary) outlook on what will happen if we don’t start to reduce greenhouse gas emissions soon.  Dan will then lay out what steps we need to take to address this critical situation.

Please note, the views that will be expressed at this event represent the speaker. This talk is not appropriate for children.

Monday December 1^st, 2008 ~ 7:30 – 9:00 AM

7:30 – 8:00 - Early arrival networking; doors open and breakfast served at 7:15
8:00 – 8:55 – Presentation and discussion
9:00 – Hard Stop, stay to network as your schedule allows

Cost: $25 Includes Breakfast, Networking, and Speaker Presentation

Location: The Cornell Club of New York ~ 6 East 44th Street ~ Ivy Room, 4th Floor

Parking Information: Central Parking located at 100 W 44th Street, 6th and Broadway for a charge of $22.00 with Cornell Club Validation or Valet Parking for a fee of $40 for 24hrs. 

“Surviving The Crisis: What Went Wrong and What’s Next For Wall Street?” featuring Andy Kessler ’80, financial investment writer frequently featured in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.

Event Contact: Amanda Christofferson, amc392@cornell.edu, 607.254.7111

Incredibly, notice for this event was sent at 5:30 a.m. Saturday morning and was oversold by 11:00 a.m. Because it's already oversold we won't be keeping a waiting list, but be sure to keep your eyes open for more events like this in the coming months.

“Growing a business, maintaining a life” featuring Susan Kurz Snyder ‘81, founder of Greene-Levin-Snyder Legal Search Group and Dr. Svetlana Kogan ’93, founder of Doctors at Trump Place

At our first-ever NYC Cornell Entrepreneur Network women’s luncheon event on October 2nd, we’ll hear two extraordinary entrepreneurs talk about how they have managed to be – and stay – successful, even while having a life outside the office.

Challenges they’ll talk about include:

• How can you stay relevant within your professional network while you’re taking maternity leave or trying to work fewer hours so you can spend quality time with your children?
• When is the right time to expand the business or seek a more powerful job, and does that automatically have to mean more hours or more stress?
• How much time can you realistically take off if you’re in a field with ever-evolving techniques or regulations, like law and medicine?
• Do you really have more flexibility when you’re self-employed vs. when you’re an employee?

About Our Speakers

 
Dr. Svetlana Kogan ‘93, MD is The Founder of Doctors at Trump Place, which she opened at Trump Place in April 2006. In 2007 she launched The Longevity Boutique, an online marketplace of wellness products, and also opened a second office location in Queens.

She is a classically-trained doctor who incorporates the best of Western modern science and technology with the ancient folk-wisdom of the Oriental, Ayurvedic, and Eastern European healing traditions.

Doctor Kogan graduated Cornell University with a major in Biology and minors in Italian language and Art History. She attended the prestigious Sackler School of Medicine and has completed her medical residency at Lenox Hill Hospital in NYC. She is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and is a member of American Anti-Aging Academy and American Medical Association. Her research in Diabetes Mellitus has been awarded by the National Institute of Health and she has authored various health-related articles and columns.  

Outside of work, Svetlana spends time with her seven-year old daughter and enjoys art and good food. She travel s frequently to Italy, where she practices her fluency in Italian and makes good use of information learned here in the Hotel School’s famous wines class.

Susan Kurz Snyder Esq. ’81 is a co-founder of Greene-Levin-Snyder Legal Search Group. Susan concentrates on partner placements and in-house search work at all levels, with a notable specialty in financial institution placements.

Susan received joint J.D. and M.B.A. degrees in 1985 from Georgetown University, a B.S. degree with Honors in 1981 from Cornell University, and studied at the London School of Economics. Before law school, Susan worked with Ralph Nader at the Center for Study of Responsive Law. After graduating from law school in 1985 until 1988, Susan was a corporate associate at what was then known as Rosenman & Colin. In 1988, Susan worked on the Dukakis presidential campaign and then joined Elaine P. Dine, Inc. as a legal recruiter, where she spent nearly a decade. In 1997, she co-founded Greene-Levin-Snyder Legal Search Group.

Susan's passions outside of work include mothering her two beloved children, Jeremy, age 17, and Becky, age 11. She is an active volunteer at The Ethical Culture Fieldston School, a Regional Ambassador for the Cornell University Alumni Association, and a long-standing advocate for the homeless. Susan balances a strenuous work schedule with regular exercise and yoga practice. She loves seashores and sharing sunsets with her husband, a prominent trial lawyer.

DETAILS
October 2, 2008, 11:30 – 1:30
11:30 – 12:00 PM Buffet Lunch/Networking
12:00 – 12:15 PM Attendee Introductions
12:15 – 1:00 PM Speaker/Q&A
1:00 – 1:30 PM Networking
Cost: $20 Includes Food, Networking, and Speaker Presentation
Location: The Cornell Club of New York ~ Fall Creek Room, 5th Floor ~ 6 East 44th Street ~ 212.986.0300
Guest Policy: Sorry, no non-Cornellian guests for this event. We expect it to sell out quick and want to give alumnae and parents of Cornellians first dibs.

Event Contact: JBL29@cornell.edu ~ 607.254.7174

To register, click on the Register to Attend tab at the top of the page

Apologies - this event has been oversold, and we cannot allow walkins or last-minute registrations. Given the fantastic response, we will definitely be holding similar events in the future, so please stay tuned!

"How to get funding for your startup?" featuring Savneet Singh '05, Startup Investor and Co-founder of streamline.fm; Patrick Kandianis '88, Co-Founder, EVP & Chief Sales Officer of SimpleTuition; and Zack Schildhorn '07/MBA '08, Associate of Lux Capital

This topic beats the heart of the Cornell Entrepreneur Network. Who do you ask, when do you ask, how do you ask...those are all burning questions on the minds of anyone who's serious about starting a business.

At this event on September 10th, we'll bring together a panel of Cornellians who have either gotten funding or who give funding to promising entrepreneurs. They'll spend 10 minutes each telling us their stories, then we'll open up the floor for questions. Finally, we'll do an Open Mike exercise, which will give you a chance to tell everyone in the room your startup idea and contacts you're looking to make. Post-event a list of attendees and your contact information will be posted so you can all continue networking long after the event.

About our Speakers and Their Businesses

Zack Schildhorn, Associate – Lux Capital
Zack is an Associate with Lux Capital, based in the firm's New York headquarters. Zack has been working with Lux since 2006, focusing on investments in energy and novel materials.

Before joining Lux, Zack received his B.S. cum laude from Cornell University's College of Engineering, where he developed his own curriculum to study materials science engineering and business entrepreneurship. After being accepted into a highly selective dual-degree program, Zack pursued his MBA at Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management, where he helped teach in the entrepreneurship and private equity immersion program. Zack has been a contributing editor for Forbes and an invited speaker and guest lecturer at Cornell.

Lux Capital Management is a research-driven investment firm focused on de novo, seed and early stage investments in the physical and life sciences. Some of Lux's investment partners include Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse, Sequoia Capital, Venrock Associates, Polaris Venture Partners, Intel, Motorola, Genentech, and Medtronic.  Read more here >> http://luxcapital.com/about_profile.php

Patrick Kandianis, Co-Founder, EVP & Chief Sales Officer – SimpleTuition
Patrick has worked in different sectors serving the higher education market for the past 21 years, including education finance, systems/software and travel. Most recently, as VP of Business Development for First Marblehead Corp, Patrick led the company’s sales efforts in the Midwest and Western regions and helped formulate product strategy and development before and after the company’s IPO. Previously, Patrick had a role as Director of Business Development for Jenzabar, a startup which became a leading systems provider for colleges and universities. Earlier on, Pat was one of the original principals of Student Travel Services and Suncoast Vacations, leading student tour companies where, as VP of Sales and Operations, he led business development, marketing and advertising efforts nationwide. Pat holds a BA from Cornell.

SimpleTuition is the leading student loan comparison site for personalized student loan research. The site has been recently featured on Kiplinger’s Best List as the best financial services website for student loans and as one of Fast Company’s Top Web 2.0 sites. The company is funded by Atlas Venture, Flybridge Capital Partners and North Hill Ventures. The company is currently raising their Series C round. Read more here >> http://www.simpletuition.com/about_us

Savneet Singh, Co-founder – streamline.fm
Savneet graduated from Cornell University in 2005 with a BS in Applied Economics and Management. Post Cornell he spent two years working in the investment banking department of Morgan Stanley working on mergers and acquisitions in the technology and industrial sectors. He is currently an investment analyst at Chilton Investment Company, a long/short equity hedge fund based in New York. On the side, he’s working on www.streamline.fm , which recently received venture capital funding from Plug and Play Ventures and is in the midst of raising another round. Read more here >> http://www.streamline.fm/howitworks.php

Wednesday, September 10, 2008 ~ 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM

6:30 PM Hors d'oeuvre Reception/Cash Bar/Networking
7:30 PM Speaker/Q&A/Open Mike
8:30 PM Dessert/Coffee/Networking

Cost: $25 Includes Food, Networking, and Speaker Presentation (note this is $10 less than other events -- we're giving startups a little break!)
Location: The Cornell Club of New York ~ 6 East 44th Street ~ 212.986.0300
Parking Information: Central Parking located at 100 W 44th Street, 6th and Broadway for a charge of $22.00 with Cornell Club Validation or Valet Parking for a fee of $40 for 24hrs.

Event Contact: Jennifer Cunningham~ 607.254.7174~ JBL29@cornell.edu

This event produced in partnership with the Cornell Metro New York Regional Office,
the Cornell Engineering Alumni Association, and Cornell Financial Engineering Manhattan
 

Sorry, this event has been sold out and we have a waiting list of 40+ people, so we will not be allowing walk-ins at this event. Clearly this is a popular subject; we'll be planning similar events for the fall...stay tuned!

"Fooling Some of the People All of the Time" featuring David Einhorn ‘91, President of Greenlight Capital, Inc.

On June 13th, we’ll delve deep inside the dark side of Wall Street, revealing the failings of its investment banks, analysts, journalists, and especially our government regulators.

Our speaker is David Einhorn ‘91, President of Greenlight Capital, Inc. and author of a new book published by Wiley called, “Fooling Some of the People All of the Time: A Long Short Story” . David gave a speech in 2002 at a charity investment conference to benefit a children’s cancer hospital. He was asked to share his best investment idea, so he did. He described his reasons why Greenlight had sold short the shares of Allied Capital, a leader in the private finance industry. Greenlight bet that the stock would decline because the company’s business was in trouble and its accounting was corrupt.

As a result of this speech, when the New York Stock Exchange opened for trading the next day, Allied’s shares remained closed: so many investors wanted to sell or short the stock that the NYSE could not balance all the sell orders to open Allied’s trading in an orderly fashion.

Allied attacked Einhorn, and the SEC — at the behest of the politically connected Allied — investigated him for stock manipulation. Over the ensuing six years, the SEC allowed Allied to make the problem bigger by approving more than a dozen additional stock offerings that raised over $1 billion from new investors. Undeterred by the spin-job, lies, and investigations, Greenlight continued its research after the speech and discovered Allied’s behavior was far worse than Einhorn ever suspected — and, shockingly, it continues to this day.

About our Speaker
David Einhorn is the President and founder of Greenlight Capital, a long-short value-oriented hedge fund, which started with $1 million under management in 1996. Over the ensuing years, Greenlight has generated greater than a 25% annualized net return for its partners. Einhorn is the Chairman of Greenlight Capital Re, Ltd. (Nasdaq: GLRE) and serves on the boards of the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research and Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life. Einhorn graduated summa cum laude from Cornell University in 1991, earning a B.A. in Government from the College of Arts and Sciences.

Friday, June 13th 2008 ~ 7:30 – 9:00 AM

7:30 – 8:00 - Early arrival networking; doors open at 7:15
8:00 – 8:10 - Introduction of attendees
8:10 – 8:55 – Presentation and discussion
9:00 – Hard Stop, stay to network as your schedule allows

Cost: $25 Includes Breakfast, Networking, and Speaker Presentation

Location: The Cornell Club of New York ~ 6 East 44th Street ~ Ivy Room, 4th Floor

Parking Information: Central Parking located at 100 W 44th Street, 6th and Broadway for a charge of $22.00 with Cornell Club Validation or Valet Parking for a fee of $40 for 24hrs.

 “The Future of Newspapers and Quality Journalism in the Internet Age,” featuring Richard Levine ’62, former Wall Street Journal correspondent and Dow Jones & Company electronic publishing executive, and current president of the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund, Inc.

 With the Web taking readers, circulation and advertising from the nation’s newspapers, the future of print publishing is one of the biggest business stories today. In 2007 we saw the buyout of Tribune Company by real-estate magnate Sam Zell, the sale of Dow Jones to News Corp., and the repositioning of The Washington Post as an education company. The questions raised by the assent of online publications, the financial problems facing the newspaper industry and the reshaping of the news business are critical in a democratic society dependent on the flow of reliable news and information. They include:

• What is the future of newspaper publishing?
• Who will foot the bill for professional journalists and quality journalism in the future?
• What is the new business model that will support journalism tomorrow?
• How do blogging and citizen journalism relate to professional reporting and editing? 
• Where are the career opportunities in the new media landscape?

About Our Speaker
Dick Levine's five decades in journalism and publishing started at The Cornell Daily Sun, where he was sports editor and managing editor. He then went to the New York Times and then to Dow Jones, where he has been for more than 40 years. He has served as a correspondent and columnist for The Wall Street Journal; a pioneering electronic publishing executive who developed The Wall Street Journal Online and the predecessor to Factiva; executive editor of Dow Jones Newswires; vice president of Dow Jones for news; and a member of the company’s management committee. Today, he is president of the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund, a foundation that promotes careers in print and online journalism. 

June 11, 2008
6:30 PM – 9:30 PM

6:30 PM Hors d'oeuvre Reception/Cash Bar/Networking
7:30 PM Speaker/Q&A/Open Mike
8:30 PM Dessert/Coffee/Networking

Cost: $35 per person includes Hors d'oeuvres, Dessert, Coffee/Tea

Location:
The Cornell Club - New York
6 East 44th Street ~ 212.986.0300

Directions: Click Here

Parking: Central Parking located at 100 W 44th Street, 6th and Broadway for a charge of $22.00 with Cornell Club Validation or Valet Parking for a fee of $40 for 24hrs.

Event Contact: Steve Meza ~ sgm56@cornell.edu ~ 607.254.8713

This event produced in partnership with the Cornell Metro Regional Office

"Developing and marketing a niche product” featuring Gwen Whiting ’98 & Lindsey Wieber ‘98, co-founders of The Laundress

Oprah Magazine, Redbook, The New York Times, InStyle, Domino, Real Simple, People, Vogue, Shape, and dozens of others have featured The Laundress - and now CEN is going to join the list!

Gwen Whiting & Lindsey Wieber, two alumnae Apparel and Textile Management majors, founded The Laundress in 2004, hit sales of over a million in less than three years, and now sell their luxury fabric care and specialty detergent products in upscale retail stores and spas all over the globe.

At this event you’ll hear an inspiring entrepreneurial story with several twists and turns. Like how the two were turned down for financing because they were overqualified and underqualified. How they threw a for-profit party to raise the $5,000 that got them going. How they drove back and forth from NYC to Ithaca on weekends to visit with Professor Kay Obendorf and research the chemistry of cleaning.

They’ll also talk about how they researched the market, made the decision to jump in, developed their unique product lines, negotiated distribution deals, and snagged key press coverage from the hottest consumer publications.

About Our Speakers
Post-graduation, Gwen was a Senior Designer of the Ralph Lauren Home Collection for five years. Prior to her work in Home Collection, her experience at Ralph Lauren included women's design and Polo Store development. Lindsey was the Manager of U.S. Sales for CHANEL Ready-to-Wear. She managed the CHANEL boutique accounts and other large accounts such as Bergdorf Goodman and Neiman Marcus. Lindsey also worked at Brooks Brothers in men's and women's buying departments.

About The Laundress
The Laundress launched in March 2004, after three years of research and development. The ladies' forays across the globe for work and pleasure greatly influenced the inception of The Laundress, inspiring fragrances and products, and identifying the need for the accessory collection. A huge component of product development is continually finding ways to be more environmentally friendly, using organic materials, renewable resources, no bleach or chlorine, essential oils vs. artificial fragrances, etc.

Wednesday, May 14, 2008 ~ 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM

6:30 PM Hors d'oeuvre Reception/Cash Bar/Networking
7:30 PM Speaker/Q&A/Open Mike
8:30 PM Dessert/Coffee/Networking

Cost: $35 Includes Food, Networking, and Speaker Presentation
Location: The Cornell Club of New York ~ 6 East 44th Street ~ 212.986.0300
Parking Information: Central Parking located at 100 W 44th Street, 6th and Broadway for a charge of $22.00 with Cornell Club Validation or Valet Parking for a fee of $40 for 24hrs.

Event Contact: Steve Meza~ 607.254.8713~ SGM56@cornell.edu

This event produced in partnership with the Cornell Metro New York Regional Office and the College of Human Ecology

"The fastest growing market opportunity in America: Hispanics” featuring Tom Kadala ’80, president of ResearchPAYS, Inc. and Roberto Ramos '94, president of The Vox Collective

You’ve all heard the staggering statistic that by 2050, 25% of the US population will be of Hispanic descent, for a total of 100 million people. Newsflash: those stats are probably wrong. The Pew Hispanic Center in Washington, DC recently unveiled updated predictions and found that closer to 30% of the population is of Hispanic descent, for a total of 128 million. The implications around purchasing power (aka opportunity for businesses) are significant.

The tricky part is how to effectively market to this group. English or español? Same product offerings or tailored? Same media? What are the cultural hot buttons and sensitivities? How are first-, second- and third generation-Americans different? What messages resonate? Do larger companies have it figured out?

At our breakfast on April 23rd, we’ll hear from two alumni who answer these questions every day for clients including American Express, Macy’s, Verizon Wireless, and others.

About Our Speakers
 
Tom Kadala ’80 is the President of ResearchPAYS, Inc., a strategic business consulting firm dedicated to the development and expansion of Hispanic consumer markets. Tom has over 20 years marketing and consulting experience and is nationally recognized innovator and leader in the design and implementation of interactive marketing programs that are currently used by Fortune 500 companies, including American Express.

A frequent speaker and writer on Hispanic market research issues, Mr. Kadala’s authored two Harvard Business School case studies, which required extensive field research in Latin America.  Recently he has been commissioned to write two articles for the Harvard Business Review on the 'Hispanic Consumer'. His current marketing efforts also include a nationally syndicated bi-monthly opinion-editorial column addressing the many nuances of the Hispanic consumer/employee. Fluent in Spanish and Italian, Tom has a B.S. (CEE) from Cornell University and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. 

Doing Business with China in the Chinese Century, featuring Gordon G. Chang, ’73
China, according to Alan Greenspan, is the only nation that can challenge the US for world economic leadership 25 years from now. Yet almost everyone thinks this is already China’s Century. But is it also the century for business in China? 

In his March article in Commentary, our April 22 CEN speaker writes that “by each of the criteria that Greenspan himself considers crucial to economic success—property rights, representative governance, and the rule of law, to name the most important—China scores poorly or worse. Thus, the question raised inadvertently by Greenspan’s book (The Age of Turbulence) is whether China’s effort to overtake the dominant position of the United States in the world economy can continue to coexist with the country’s overall political framework. So far, China’s performance alone would seem to vindicate Greenspan’s prediction.”

So the country with the most opportunities in history is, at the same time, the one with the biggest risks. At our event on April 22nd, one of the most respected authorities on the Asian business climate will talk to us about what’s happening in China today and how it will likely affect us – and the rest of the world – tomorrow.

About Our Speaker

Gordon G. Chang ’73,  lived and worked in China and Hong Kong for almost two decades as an attorney.  His writings on China and North Korea have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Far Eastern Economic Review, the International Herald Tribune, Commentary, The Weekly Standard, and the South China Morning Post.

He has spoken at Columbia, Cornell, Princeton, Yale, The Brookings Institution, The Heritage Foundation, the Cato Institute, RAND, the American Enterprise Institute, and the Council on Foreign Relations.  He has given briefings at the National Intelligence Council, the Central Intelligence Agency, the State Department, and the Pentagon.  He has also spoken before industry and investor groups including Bloomberg, Sanford Bernstein, and Credit Lyonnais Securities Asia.  Chang has appeared before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission and has delivered to the Commission a report on the future of China’s economy.  

TV appearances include CNN, Fox News Channel, CNBC, MSNBC, the BBC, Bloomberg Television and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.  He’s also the author of Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes On the World and The Coming Collapse of China.  He now blogs at Commentary magazine's site, www.contentions.org .
 
Chang earned his undergraduate degree from the College of Arts & Sciences in 1973 and his JD from Cornell Law in 1976. He wrote for the Cornell Daily Sun as a student and served two terms as a Cornell Trustee.

Tuesday, April 22, 2008 ~ 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM

6:30 PM Hors d'oeuvre Reception/Cash Bar/Networking
7:30 PM Speaker/Q&A/Open Mike
8:30 PM Dessert/Coffee/Networking

Cost: $35 Includes Food, Networking, and Speaker Presentation
Location: The Cornell Club of New York ~ 6 East 44th Street ~ 212.986.0300
Parking Information: Central Parking located at 100 W 44th Street, 6th and Broadway for a charge of $22.00 with Cornell Club Validation or Valet Parking for a fee of $40 for 24hrs.

Event Contact: Steve Meza~ 607.254.8713~ SGM56@cornell.edu

This event produced in partnership with the Cornell Metro Regional Office

Targeting the Baby Boomers: They Spend, They're Online and They're More Than a Demographic  featuring Robin Wolaner '75, Founder & CEO of TeeBeeDee, Inc.

They're the largest consumer audience out there - 78 million of them, 3 times the number of teens - and they've got a LOT of disposable income. At this event, you'll learn why it's important for your business to pay special attention to this brand-loyal group, why selling to boomers is fraught with peril (do NOT call them seniors!), and why everyone who thinks they know about boomers - is wrong.

We ran this event in California to rave, rave reviews. Our speaker’s company is TeeBeeDee, a social site for people “of a certain age,” as the New York Times column that featured Robin and the company, called them. The company was also recently featured in BusinessWeek.

About Our Speaker
Robin started Parenting Magazine more than 20 years ago (before she had kids). She then helped launch Vibe Magazine, ran Sunset Publishing (no one else could believe that a feisty, apartment-dwelling woman would end up running such a whitebread operation, and she got fired from that job), spent five years as an executive at CNET (we say it that way because no one really knows what her job was), and wrote a book called Naked in the Boardroom: A CEO Bares Her Secrets So You Can Transform Your Career (Simon & Schuster, 2005).

Suffice it to say that Robin had a few professional notches on her belt, and felt that she really culminated her life by having two amazing children. She was all set up to be their mother, mostly. Then she turned 50, fell in love, published her first book, had breast cancer (it turned out not to be life-threatening), and started TeeBeeDee.

Thursday, April 3, 2008
6:30 PM – 9:30 PM

6:30 PM Hors d'oeuvre Reception/Cash Bar/Networking
7:30 PM Speaker/Q&A/Open Mike
8:30 PM Dessert/Coffee/Networking

Cost: $35 Includes Food, Networking, and Speaker Presentation
Guest Policy: Alumni may bring up to two non-alumni guests to this event
Location: The Cornell Club of New York ~ 6 East 44th Street ~ 212.986.0300
Parking Information: Central Parking located at 100 W 44th Street, 6th and Broadway for a charge of $22.00 with Cornell Club Validation or Valet Parking for a fee of $40 for 24hrs.

Event Contact: Steve Meza~ 607.254.8713~ SGM56@cornell.edu

This event produced in partnership with the Cornell Metro Regional Office

CEN NY: Building a Software Company and the Lessons Learned, featuring Amy Motschwiller ‘80 & Maggie Tolkin ‘80, Founders of StudentBackUp.com

Lemons: A few years ago our speaker’s son experienced a power outage and lost all his work from his first semester at college.
Lemonade: The disaster sparked an idea, which evolved into a product, which grew into a thriving software business called Student Backup. Student Backup has been sold through Walmart.com and is on its way to the shelves in Kmart, Bed Bath & Beyond, Barnes&Noble.com, and several other retailers. For $49/year, it provides students with a secure, fast and affordable online system for the daily, automated and unattended offsite backup of their critical data files. The software is impressive, but the entrepreneurial business story behind it is even more so. At breakfast on March 27th, you’ll get to hear all about it.

Co-founders Amy Motschwiller ‘80 and Maggie Tolkin ‘80, will share their stories about: 

• How their lack of technical expertise didn’t matter; it was all about understanding the audience (70% of college students never back up their files)
• The challenges they solved along the way, including selling via a sales force on college campuses
• Conscientiously controlling growth to achieve their real goals:  a family/life/work balance, and running a business that helps kids through a catastrophe
• Evolving software in tandem with Microsoft’s ongoing and unpredictable OS development
• Using Cornell resources to research their market and redesign their packaging
• Choosing the right business partner

About our Speakers
Maggie Tolkin brings over 10 years of product marketing experience, having worked for Carnation Company, American Home Products and Nabisco.  Maggie earned an undergraduate degree from the Hotel School at Cornell University and an MBA from New York University Stern School of Business.  She has been an alumni interviewer for Cornell University for the past 7 years providing her great exposure to high school students entering colleges.  Maggie also sits on the board of Cornell University’s Long Island Alumni Club, as well as the Parent Advisory Board of Duke University in North Carolina.  Maggie resides with her husband and three children on Long Island.  Her three sons attend Duke University, a senior, sophomore, and freshman.

Amy Motschwiller has over 10 years of sales and marketing experience with Control Data Corporation and Xerox.  She holds an undergraduate degree from the School of Human Ecology at Cornell University and an MBA from New York University Stern School of Business.  She has been an alumni interviewer for Cornell University for over twenty years, providing her great exposure to high school students entering college.  Amy co-chaired the fund-raising efforts of Island Harvest, a food rescue program, is past-president of the Joint Council PTA, serves on the Parent Advisory council for Harvard University, and is a member of the Cornell University College of Human Ecology Alumni Board.  Amy resides with her husband and three children on Long Island.  Her son is a junior at Harvard and her daughter is a Cornell freshman.

This event is produced in partnership with the Cornell Metro New York Regional Office

• How to mesh your business plan with the harsh realities of commercial real estate
• When to start the process and who to put on your team
• 5 common newcomer errors and how to avoid them
• How to ensure you never over-negotiate

About Our Speaker

This event has sold out. To join the waiting list, please send an email with your name, email, and phone number to SGM56@cornell.edu and we'll contact you if a space opens up.

Social Networking: How does it affect your life? featuring Cornell University Professor Jon Kleinberg ‘93 and principal research scientist at Yahoo! Research, Duncan Watts Ph.D '97

This is how wikipedia describes Social Networking as a business application: “Social networks connect people at low cost; this can be beneficial for entrepreneurs and small businesses looking to expand their contact base. These networks often act as a customer relationship management tool for companies selling products and services. Companies can also use social networks for advertising in the form of banners and text ads. Since businesses operate globally, social networks can make it easier to keep in touch with contacts around the world.”

If you agree with that assessment, then you need to attend this event. Our speakers are Jon Kleinberg ’93 -“The Guy” that Microsoft, Yahoo, and Google have on their speed-dial to consult with when the topic of social networking arises - and Duncan Watts, principal research scientist at Yahoo Research. They'll talk to us about all aspects of this relatively new-to-most-of-us phenomenon and how you can apply it to your business.

About Our Speakers
Jon Kleinberg received his AB from Cornell in 1993 and his PhD from MIT in 1996.  He spent a year as a Visiting Scientist at the IBM Almaden Research Center and has since been a Professor in the Department of Computer Science.

Professor Kleinberg teaches courses on theoretical aspects of computer science, and on the emerging inter-disciplinary role of networks at the interface of computing and information science, economics, and sociology. (Don’t let that description scare you; Jon is one of those briliiant scientists who easily brings technology down to a layman’s level. In fact, students from all colleges take his courses).

He has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is the recipient of MacArthur, Packard, and Sloan Foundation Fellowships, the Nevanlinna Prize from the International Mathematical Union, and the National Academy of Sciences Award for Initiatives in Research.

Thursday, March 13, 2008
6:30 PM – 9:30 PM

6:30 PM Hors d'oeuvre Reception/Cash Bar/Networking
7:30 PM Speaker/Q&A/Open Mike
8:30 PM Dessert/Coffee/Networking

Cost: $35 Includes Food, Networking, and Speaker Presentation
Location: The Cornell Club of New York ~ 6 East 44th Street
Parking Information: Central Parking located at 100 W 44th Street, 6th and Broadway for a charge of $22.00 with Cornell Club Validation or Valet Parking for a fee of $40 for 24hrs.

Event Contact: Steve Meza~ 607.254.8713~ SGM56@cornell.edu

This event produced in partnership with the Cornell Computing and Information Science Department and the Cornell Metro Regional Office

• How does a blogger/writer find topics to write about and people to interview -- Press releases? Word of mouth? Industry conferences? Google? LinkedIn.com or Facebook.com?
• What kind of pitch makes editors and bloggers pick up phone or send an email to the pitchee?
• What is the relationship between editors and PR firms these days? How has it changed in the last several years?
• Does it make sense to start your own blogs? If so, what’s involved?
• Can you use social media to get high-quality publicity for your business?

Sharon Tolpin ’85 has 15+ years experience directing the public relations, analyst relations and marketing communications activities of start-up and leading global technology companies. She leads Articulate's new media practice, providing both strategic and hands-on tactical support to help clients increase visibility in the marketplace, build audience and drive revenue.

 

Previously, Sharon was VP of marketing and communication for Critical Mention/ClipSyndicate, a real-time broadcast monitoring platform and video syndication platform. Prior to Critical Mention, Sharon was VP of corporate communications at V-Secure Technologies, an adaptive behavior-based intrusion-prevention company. Before V-Secure, Sharon held senior-level communications positions at Business Layers, an identity management company; Mercury Interactive, a Business Technology Software company acquired by HP in 2006; Deltathree, a leader in IP telephony; and Solbright, a provider of sales and revenue management software.

 

She received her MBA in international business from Baruch College of the City of New York and her bachelor’s degree in consumer economics from Cornell University.

 

Erick Schonfeld ’93 has been covering startups and technology news for 14 years. At Business 2.0 he wrote feature stories and ran their main blog, Next Net, which has nearly 50,000 RSS subscribers. Prior to Business 2.0, Erick was an editor-at-large for eCompany and a contributing editor for Fortune. In 1999, Schonfeld won the prize for best information technology submission at London’s Business Journalist of the Year Awards, and in 2001 he won the prize for best space submission at the Aerospace Journalist of the Year Awards in Paris.

 

In 1996 and 1997, Schonfeld was recognized in the TJFR Business News Reporter’s list of the “best and brightest financial journalists under the age of 30.” He appears regularly on CNBC, CNN, and NY1, and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences. Schonfeld graduated magna cum laude from Cornell University in 1993.

Thursday, January 31, 2008

7:30 – 9:00 AM

 

7:30 – 8:00 - Early arrival networking; doors open at 7:15
8:00 – 8:10 - Introduction of attendees
8:10 – 8:55 – Presentation and discussion
9:00 – Hard Stop, stay to network as your schedule allows

Cost: $20 Includes Breakfast, Networking, and Speaker Presentation

Location:
The Cornell Club of New York
6 East 44th Street ~ 212.986.0300

Directions: Click Here

Parking Information: Central Parking located at 100 W 44th Street, 6th and Broadway for a charge of $22.00 with Cornell Club Validation or Valet Parking for a fee of $40 for 24hrs.

Event Contact: Steve Meza~ 607.254.8713~ SGM56@cornell.edu

This event produced in partnership with the Cornell Metro Regional Office

"Selling Is Everyone’s Business", featuring Adam Shaivitz '98, Co-author of Selling is Everyone’s Business—What it Takes to Create a Great Salesperson, and Sales Consultant at Accelerate Performance Sales Consulting .

If your job is to move a product, service, or concept, tangible or intangible, you are in sales. If you have ever tried to convince a friend or your spouse to see a certain movie or eat at a certain restaurant, you are in sales. If you have ever tried to show your child the benefit of doing homework, if you have ever tried to sell an idea to coworkers, if you have ever tried to get someone to invest in your idea, or if you ever had to fight the battle of mind over mattress to sell yourself on the idea of getting out of bed early to workout, you are in sales. So even if "Sales Representative" is not on your business card, you still need to develop the ability to sell!

At this event, Adam will facilitate an interactive workshop on how to improve your sales skills and set yourself and your ideas apart from the crowd. Meet and network with fellow alums and participate in the workshop so you will execute beyond your potential the next time you need to sell yourself or your ideas. If you are in sales or sales management—great, this workshop is for you. If you are not—great, this workshop is for you.

Here's what some of your fellow alumni who have seen Adam's CEN presentation have said about it:

Colleen Wainwright `83 - “Awesome event! Loved Adam's presentation and the interactivity.”

Ashley Wilson `88 - “It was an excellent event. I got to meet some people before the event because we hooked up after reading each others' bio…Adam was a charismatic speaker who, best of all, got everyone interacting with each other. By far the best Cornell event I've attended.”

David Hong, Esq. `91 - “Adam's presentation was useful b/c it was in a workshop format. Instead of being passive, the alumni were able to practice the techniques out on one another, and it also ended up allowing different people to talk together.”

About Adam
Adam Shaivitz, MBA, has developed and delivered sales, service, and management coaching programs for clients including Morgan Stanley, Johnson and Johnson, Google, PIMCO, and Automatic Data Processing (ADP). Clients consistently marvel at Adam’s endless enthusiasm and how it leads to increased motivation and higher performance for their organizations. They highly value Adam’s “street credibility” from his years in the field as a top performing salesperson and sales manager. Prior to sales consulting, Adam worked in sales, sales management, and marketing at Bristol-Myers Squibb and Score Learning Corporation, a division of Kaplan. At Score, Adam led the top performing team in the Midwest (as measured by sales and profitability) and one of the top performing teams in the country. Adam received a B.S. in Applied Economics and Business Management from Cornell University, where he played lacrosse for four years, and an M.B.A. in Marketing and Entrepreneurship from the Anderson School at UCLA. Adam was born and raised in Columbia, Maryland and currently resides in Hermosa Beach, California.

January 15, 2008
7:30 AM – 9:00 AM

7:30 - 8:00 - Early arrival networking; doors open at 7:15
8:00 - 8:45 - Presentation and discussion; hard stop at 8:45
9:00 - Stay to network as your schedule allows

Cost: $20 per person, includes Breakfast, Networking, and Speaker Presentation

Location:
The Cornell Club of New York
6 East 44th Street ~ New York, NY 10017

Directions: Click Here

Parking Information: Central Parking, 100 W 44th Street (6th and Broadway) for a charge of $22 with Cornell Club Validation or Valet Parking for a fee of $40 for 24 hrs.

CEN Metro NY in partnership with the  Metro NY Regional Office:

 Alumni often ask: what ultimately happens to the incredible technology that Cornell professors and graduate students invent?

For some technologies, that answer is that it gets moved from the lab to the marketplace via The Cornell Center for Technology, Enterprise and Commercialization (CCTEC). CCTEC is charged with the responsibilities of promoting technology entrepreneurship and technology partnership with industry with an eye towards regional economic development. Turning results of Cornell research into beneficial products for the public and diversifying and strengthening regional economy are both important missions of the university.

                    Some companies CCTEC has helped develop include:

• Kionix, a global leader in the design and fabrication of high-performance, silicon-micromachined MEMS inertial sensors. The company is primarily focused on the consumer electronics market, supplying motion-activated features for game controllers, cell phones, notebook computers, and personal navigation devices.
• SightSpeed, Inc. is the leading provider of free and premium Internet video and voice communications services (VVoIP and VoIP). SightSpeed's award winning service turns a PC or Mac into an easy-to-use video phone to communicate with friends, family and colleagues around the world.
• Fingerlakes Aquaculture, Inc., a large-scale producer of branded, farm-raised fish that uses environmentally friendly indoor recirculating aquaculture system ("RAS") to produce premium-quality fresh tilapia.

 

CEN Metro NY presents: The Surgeon as Entrepreneur: How your physician stays in business despite endless HMO bureaucracy, sky-high liability insurance rates, and healthcare policy misfires featuring Dr. Alejandro Badia '85

It seems every day we see news items about the state of health care in the US. Eager presidential candidates, nervous business owners, thought-provoking movie producers, defensive insurance managers, and shortchanged patients all get their stories told. But we don’t get to hear as much from the key players in the tangled health care web: the physicians.

At this event, you’ll hear what entrepreneurial physicians are doing to stay on top of their games in one of our country’s most imperfect industries. Whether you’re an investor in the health care field, an employer who offers health insurance, a voter who’s evaluating which candidate’s proposal to support, a medical professional or simply a patient, Dr. Badia’s presentation will make you think and probably change your mind about one aspect or another. 

Produced in partnership with the Metro NY Regional Office

 “The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel your Life, Work and Team with Positive Energy,” featuring best-selling author Jon Gordon '93

Ken Blanchard, Co-author of The One Minute Manager® and Leading at a Higher Level, says, ”Jon’s energy and advice will help you cultivate positive energy in everything you do - and you will make the world a better place for your having been here. Thanks, Jon, for pumping us up and making sure we get on the right bus."

Organizations including The PGA Tour, The Jacksonville Jaguars, Bank of America, Chubb Insurance, Dial Corporation, GE, New York Life, The United Way and the Super Bowl Host Committee have all hired Jon Gordon to help overcome common life and work obstacles and bring out the best in themselves and their teams.

At this seminar, you’ll learn:

  The convergence of life science and lifestyle: Where are the business opportunities?
featuring William B. Rosenzweig '81, Managing Director, PHYSIC Ventures.


What does it mean to be healthy? Your answer depends on whether you’re an individual, an insurance company, or a physician balancing what’s best for patients with ever-rising costs. Trends such as the aging population, the staggering increases in chronic diseases, and the omnipresence of health and medical information available over the Internet are all working together to create a new role for consumers as patients - and a powerful investing opportunity.

Will Rosenzweig is the Managing Director of Physic Ventures, a San Francisco-based VC that provides capital and support to entrepreneurs who build science-based, consumer-directed health, wellness and sustainable living companies. Physic Ventures, a $125MM venture fund, “invests in keeping people healthy.”

At this event you’ll learn how Will has developed a new venture investment sector and how he has launched several new science-based consumer product ventures, including Lightfull Satiety Smoothie, which helps you feel full with less calories; Dreamerz, a drink that helps you fall asleep; Corazona’s, the first snack chip clinically proven to lower cholesterol; Natural Dentist Oral Care products, and Attune wellness bars, which contain over five times the probiotics in yogurt.

You'll learn a lot about the to-market path of wellness products, from research to concept to production to marketing. And you’ll be learning it from one of the most successful and dynamic experts in the industry. Previously, Will was co-founder and CEO of The Republic of Tea; SVP of Odwalla; VP of Nakamichi; Partner and CEO of Hambrecht Vineyards and Wineries, and Chairman of Winetasting.com. As an investor and board member, he has also played a role in creating, developing and financing over a dozen companies including World of Good, Revolution Foods, Papilla, Stonyfield Farms, Leapfrog, Pharmaca and Efficas.

Monday, October 29, 2007
6:30 PM – 9:30 PM

6:30 PM Hors d'oeuvre Reception/Cash Bar/Networking
7:30 PM Speaker/Q&A/Open Mike
8:30 PM Dessert/Coffee/Networking

Cost: $35 per person (includes Hors d'oeuvre Reception, Dessert, Coffee/Tea)

Location:
The Cornell Club of New York
6 East 44th Street
New York, NY 10017 

Directions: Click Here

Parking Information: Central Parking located at 100 W 44th Street, 6th and Broadway for a charge of $22.00 with Cornell Club Validation or Valet Parking for a fee of $40 for 24 hrs.

Note: If your company’s purpose is to prevent disease, promote wellness, or ensure a sustainable planet for future generations, Will would be especially interested in meeting you; please take a moment to introduce yourself at the event.

This event is being produced in partnership with the Metro NY Regional Office

CEN Metro New York in partnership with the Leland C. and Mary M. Pillsbury Insitute for Hospitality Entrepreneurship, and the Metropolitan New York Regional Office presents:

  The Billionaire Who Wasn't, featuring Conor O'Clery

CEN is proud to host one of Ireland’s most revered reporters and authors, Conor O’Clery. Mr. O’Clery is visiting the US for just a few days and has graciously agreed to spend an evening with us to share what could be the most extraordinary entrepreneurial story that CEN has ever featured.

Mr. O’Clery devoted two years of his life researching and writing the biography of one of the world’s most generous and secretive billionaires, Chuck Feeney ’56. Mr. Feeney is a Hotel School graduate and co-founder of Duty Free Shoppers (DFS), the world’s largest duty-free retail chain. How Mr. Feeney built and sold DFS is a fantastic topic in and of itself. But the more amazing lessons come from what Mr. Feeney did with the billions he made and how he went about putting his wealth to good use.

Today, Chuck Feeney, who wears a $15 watch and travels coach, would be one of the wealthiest men in the world - except that he gave away his fortune to endow Atlantic Philanthropies. To date the foundation has made donations totaling $4 billion and will give away the remaining $4 billion over the next decade. Incredibly, nobody, not even his business partner, knew the extent of his generosity, as all his gifts were “anonymous.”

At this special CEN event, you’ll have the opportunity to hear Mr. Feeney’s trusted biographer and award-winning journalist Conor O’Clery talk about the secret life of one of the world’s most benevolent entrepreneurs. The book is called “The Billionaire Who Wasn’t: How Chuck Feeney Secretly Made and Gave Away a Fortune.”

About Conor O’Clery

Conor O'Clery is an award-winning journalist and author who served as foreign correspondent and news editor at The Irish Times, the country’s leading national newspaper, for over 30 years. He also wrote for The New Republic and Newsweek International, and has been a frequent guest on BBC, NPR and CNN. He was twice awarded Journalist of the Year in Ireland, once for his reporting of 9/11, which he witnessed from his office three blocks away.

Note that at the event you will have the opportunity to purchase a signed copy of the book – please bring a check or cash.

Thursday, October 4, 2007
6:30 PM – 9:30 PM

6:30 PM Hors d'oeuvre Reception/Cash Bar/Networking
7:30 PM Speaker/Q&A/Open Mike
8:30 PM Dessert/Coffee/Networking

Cost: $35 per person (includes Hors d'oeuvre Reception, Dessert, Coffee/Tea)

Location:
The Cornell Club of New York
6 East 44th Street
New York, NY 10017
212.986.0300

Directions: Click Here

Parking Information: Central Parking located at 100 W 44th Street, 6th and Broadway for a charge of $22.00 with Cornell Club Validation or Valet Parking for a fee of $40 for 24 hrs.


This event is being produced in partnership with:

• Who decides when and how the general public should learn information like that?
• How does an anonymous tip here or a well-timed phone call there turn into an Emmy-winning news piece?
• Do journalists consider how much influence their choices about what to feature have on our economy?

These are the questions Ira Rosen will answer for CEN NYC on September 25th

As of Thursday, 9/6, this event has sold out. If you bought tickets and cannot join us, please let us know ASAP so some of your fellow alumni can attend. To be put on the wait list, please email KC42@cornell.edu

As a Producer at CBS’ 60 Minutes, he’s one of the people who decide what gets on the news and how it gets covered. He travels all over the planet to tell some of the most important stories of our time, and now we get to hear first-hand how it’s done.

About Ira Rosen: Some of you may remember reading Ira’s sports column in the Cornell Daily Sun back in the early ‘70s. Since then, he’s worked at three major networks, producing for icons including Diane Sawyer (with whom he started ABC’s Primetime Live), Mike Wallace, and Sam Donaldson. He’s won 20 Emmy awards, five IRE Awards, four Alfred DuPont-Columbia Awards, two RFK awards, and a Peabody. He also co-authored a book, The Warning: Accident at Three Mile Island.

Tuesday, September 25, 2007
6:30 PM – 9:30 PM

6:30 PM Hors d'oeuvre Reception/Cash Bar/Networking
7:30 PM Speaker/Q&A/Open Mike
8:30 PM Dessert/Coffee/Networking

Cost: $35 per person (includes Hors d'oeuvre Reception, Dessert, Coffee/Tea)

Location:
The Cornell Club of New York
6 East 44th Street
New York, NY 10017

Directions: Click Here

Parking Information: Central Parking located at 100 W 44th Street, 6th and Broadway for a charge of $22.00 with Cornell Club Validation or Valet Parking for a fee of $40 for 24 hrs.

Questions? Call Jennifer Lynham Cunningham '92
Director, Cornell Entrepreneur Network
JBL29@cornell.edu
607.254.7174

Robert Toll ’63, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer , Toll Brothers Inc. and Cornell Entrepreneur of the Year 2005.

Robert I. Toll is chairman and chief executive officer of Toll Brothers Inc., a Fortune 500 company and the leading builder of luxury homes in the United States. Toll Brothers, founded in 1967, develops luxury residential communities in 20 states throughout the nation. The company is in the Fortune 500 this year, ranking 36th among all companies in 10-year earnings per share growth; and the Company’s total return to investors ranked 20th for the ten-year period from 1994 to 2004, within the Fortune 500.

Toll was named one of Barron’s Top 30 CEOs worldwide in 2005, when the publication recognized him as the “the undisputed king of high-end housing.” Toll also was named CEO of the Year by Builder Magazine in 2005.

Wednesday, April 11, 2007
6:30 PM – 9:30 PM

6:30 PM Hors d'oeuvre Reception/Cash Bar/Networking
7:30 PM Speaker/Q&A/Open Mike
8:30 PM Dessert/Coffee/Networking

Cost: $30 per person includes Hors d'oeuvre Reception, Dessert, Coffee/Tea.

Location:
The Cornell Club of New York
6 East 44th Street
New York, NY 10017
212.986.0300

Directions: Click Here

Parking Information: Central Parking located at 100 W 44th Street, 6th and Broadway for a charge of $22.00 with Cornell Club Validation or Valet Parking for a fee of $40 for 24hrs.

Featuring James A. Goldman MBA '85, President, Godiva Chocolatier Worldwide

Jim Goldman was appointed President – Godiva Chocolatier Worldwide on March 15, 2004. Jim is responsible for driving Godiva’s global growth agenda and strengthening the company’s positioning as a world recognized luxury brand. Prior to his appointment at Godiva, Jim was president of Campbell Food and Beverages, U.S. and Latin America.

Jim joined Campbell from Nabisco, where he served as President of the Life Savers Candy Company. He held several North American leadership positions at Nabisco between 1992-2000. He is also a veteran of General Mills and has worked at McKinsey and Company as a strategic consultant to consumer products companies.

Thursday, March 1st, 2007
6:30 PM – 9:30 PM

6:30 PM Hors d'oeuvre Reception/Cash Bar/Networking
7:30 PM Speaker/Q&A/Open Mike
8:30 PM Dessert/Coffee/Tea/Networking

Cost: $30 per person includes Hors d'oeuvre Reception, Dessert, Coffee/Tea.

Location:
The Cornell Club of New York
Ivy Room
6 East 44th Street
New York, NY 10017

Directions: Click Here

Parking Information: Central Parking located at 100 W 44th Street, 6th and Broadway for a charge of $22.00 with Cornell Club Validation or Valet Parking for a fee of $40 for 24hrs.